Dr. Bernard K. Stuart, longtime community activist and civil rights leader who participated in the march on Washington in 1963, died in a fire early Wednesday at his home.

Stuart, 76, was a dentist, former president of the local NAACP and former Fort Wayne Community Schools board member. His life intersected with the lives of many whom he guided in positive directions, friends and colleag...

T  ravis Pastrana had driven the car only once or twice before, and now the extreme-sports legend wanted to take his brand new Subaru WRX Impreza for a quick test drive. He pulled the car from the driveway of his Davidsonville, Md., mansion and steered it down a steep hill leading to his 20-acre property.

He pushed the pedal to the floor, and the car revved to 30 mph ... 40 mph ... ...

LONDON - In "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire," the teenage wizard faces new terrors. A face-to-face encounter with his nemesis, the evil Lord Voldemort, for one. Girls, for another. And still fresh in the mind of 16-year-old star Daniel Radcliffe - ballroom dancing.

"I really wanted to be good at it," Radcliffe said of the scene in which Harry dances at the Hogwarts School of Witchcra...

Jesse E. Eschbach, a Warsaw native who was appointed to a federal judgeship in Fort Wayne by President Kennedy and to the U.S. Court of Appeals by President Reagan, died Tuesday.

When Eschbach retired in 2000, he had served 38 years on the federal bench. He was widely praised as a scrupulously fair and impartial judge who had a vast knowledge of the law and was always thorough and well-pr...

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NORMAL, Ill. -- The mother of a missing Illinois State University student was braced for the worst Wednesday--and it came with police identifying a body found in Mississippi as that of her daughter, Olamide Adeyooye.

Dental records identified the 21-year-old senior from west suburban Berkeley who was majoring in laboratory science and due to graduate in December.

Her body was badly ...

When the future is uncertain, as it always is on Wall Street, the best defense for mutual fund investors is a broadly diversified portfolio. But sometimes people confuse the idea of diversity with owning many different funds, and they wind up with a hodgepodge of investments that don't perform in harmony with one another.

The key to protecting the wealth you've accumulated over the year...

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Sgt. Anthony G. Jones, fresh off the plane from Iraq, sauntered unannounced into his wife's hospital room in Georgia just hours after she had given birth to their second son, an impish grin on his face.

For two joyous weeks in May, Jones cooed over their baby and showered attention on his wife. But he also took care of unfinished business, selling his pickup to retire a loan, paying off ...

A freestyle motocross rider practices Saturday afternoon before Saturday evening's show at the Nevada County Fairgrounds in Grass Valley.

I stood there motionless, with my mouth dropped open and my eyes wide as could be. I absolutely could not believe what I was seeing in front of me. It had by far surpassed any expectations I had before the show.

Saturday night I headed to the Nev...